[ti:The failing song] [ar:Matt Elliott] [al:Failing songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The failing song - Matt Elliott [00:40.54]Written by:Matt Elliott/Patricia Arquelles [01:21.09]As youths we used to talk at night [01:24.49] [01:25.45]Of the joys that life was going to bring our way [01:28.74] [01:29.70]And the failures of our forebears [01:33.87]Were as clear to us as the cold light of day [01:37.79] [01:38.53]But now those days are dead and gone [01:42.23] [01:42.87]And the future that we had is now the past [01:46.20] [01:47.10]And it's cobwebs that we cling to [01:51.22]Our aspirations turned to ashes in our hands